The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-06-25
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad-
vocate Man.

Specially Compiled for the Toilers by an Ad-
vocate Man.
There are at this time 100000 more in
dustrial employees at work than in 1885.
The Lehigh Car Manufacturing Com
pany, at Stemton has received an order for
one hundred hox and thirty gondola cars.
The employees Of the Bethlehem Iron
Company will hereafter be paid every two
weeks in accordance with the two weeks
pay law.
1t is well known fact among railway
men that on railways running north and
south the west rails wear out the faster;
that FIVE rails will wear out on the west
side of the track while three are doing
service OH the east side.
The contract for supplying the steel
needed for armor and and armament of the
new naval vessels has been returned to the
Navy Department from Bethlehem, signed
by the bethlehem Steel Company, 1t will
receive the signature of Secretary Whitney
and become operative shortly.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers held very successful meeting in
the Opera House, at Harrisburg, last Sun
day. Prominent speakers-Chief Arthur,
Senator Goblin, Grand Chaplen Everitt and
others addressed the audience on living
questions, A large number of engineers
from this section attended the meeting,
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
voo1 No,,n,,an,, Ioe ordarad tho construct
ion of thirty-five new locomotives at the
Baldwin works. Heretofore the engines
were built in Reading, but the maching
shops are overcrowded now with repair
work. The new locomotives will be on the
latest American standard. Ten are for
passenger service and the rest for coal
freight
One OF the Harrisburg assemblies OF
the knights of Labor, in view of the
speculation in salt meats and coffee, has
adopted resolution requesting "every
working man and woman and all who are
opposed to the wholesale system of robbery
of the tOiling masses in the United States
to cease purchasing coffee and salt meats.
Get some substitute for their use for three
or four weeks and YOU will effectually ruin
these heartless robbers. Boycott coffee
and salt pork, because the monopoly devil
is in it. We request the General Executive
Board to take cognzance of these specula-
tions and have the order to abstain from
the use of these articles"
Every thinker knows that the man
who would succeed must do more work
that ho gets paid for, in every pro
fessior and trade. We take it for granted
that the man who will do only twenty
dollars worth of work week, for the
simple reason that he has MEYER shown his
employer that he is worth more. Al
employe who meatis to succeed has to dc
from ten to twenty per cent, more work
that he gets actual pay for, This he has tt
do until he reaches a certain point, and
haying reached that point, he will find thai
by as much as his incom has increased 10y
so much has the demand for amount anC
intensity of his labor diminished. Labo
brings its market value and is seldom oyer
paid, oftener underpaid. 1t is the expert
ence-the know-how--and the well to dt
ones best at all times that draws the com
Portable salary.
The Illinois Legislature has struck tn
Anarchists hard blow in passing a bill
} which provides that IL two or more person
c1nspire to overthrow the existing order o
society or bring about local revolution b
] force or attempt to overcome the legal an
tborities of the State and a human being i
killed, all persons engaged in such conspil
acy and seeking to carry effect their com
mon design shall be deemed guilty of th
crime ebipmitted and shall be puEishe
according to the laws regulating the CON
missions of said crime. The bill furthe
provides that it shall not be necessary i
order to establish a conspiracy to prov
that the parties charged eyer came togethC
. and entered toto any, agreement to do i
and IL shall be sufficient, if it appears th'
. the parties charged were Sctually purs,
ing in concert the unlawful purpos,
a whether actiiis separately or togethe
q providing that the acts of each wei
. knowingly tending to the same unlawful +
suit.